θέλῃ (thele)

θέλῃ is an Ancient Greek form of ἐθέλω, meaning “to wish, be willing”. It is the 3rd person singular present active subjunctive.

Found 137 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Diogenes Laertius, Vitae philosophorum 4.7.57: … ον ἢ θανεῖν ἕτοιμος ὢν ὑπουργεῖν. μωρὸς δʼ ὃς ἤθελέν τινος μισθοῦ τὸ θεῖον εἶναι, ὡς τῶν θεῶν ὄντων ὅταν Βίων θέλῃ νομίζειν. τοιγὰρ μάτην φρονῶν, ὅτʼ ἦν ἅπας ὁ λέμφος ἄνθραξ, τὴν χεῖρα τείνας ὧδέ πως, Χαῖρʼ, εἶπε, χαῖρε, Πλο …

Hippocrates, De fistulis 9: … ν δὲ σπόγγον ἐκπιέσαι· ἔπειτα ὑποτείνας τὴν ταινίην διὰ μέσων τῶν σκελέων, ἀναδῆσαι περὶ τὸν ὀμφαλόν. ὅταν δὲ θέλη ἀφοδεύειν, ἐπὶ λασάνοισιν ὡς στενοτάτοισιν ἀφοδευέτω· ἢν δὲ παιδίον ᾖ, ἐπὶ γυναικὸς τῶν ποδῶν, πρὸς τὰ γούνατ …

Basil, Saint, Bishop of Caesarea, Epistulae 258·3: … ν καὶ ἀνένδοτον ἔνστασιν, ἔχομεν αὐτὸν κοινωνικὸν μέχρι τοῦ νῦν τῇ τοῦ Θεοῦ χάριτι, καὶ ἕξομέν γε, ἐὰν ὁ Θεὸς θελῇ· ἐπεὶ καὶ ὁ μακαριώτατος πάπας Ἀθανάσιος, ἐπιστὰς ἀπὸ Ἀλεξανδρείας, πάνυ ἐβούλετο αὐτῷ τὴν πρὸς αὐτὸν κοινωνί …

All forms of ἐθέλω (conjugation table)

Source: Socratos (socratos.org), a free reader for Ancient Greek and Latin. Grammar from the Perseus Treebank and Morpheus; dictionary entries from Liddell-Scott-Jones, A Greek-English Lexicon (Perseus Digital Library, CC BY-SA). Counts are from the texts on Socratos.